Masan Yongmago vs. 'Challenge to win for the first time in 7 years' Seoul High School will determine the best in the country for the first time in 2025 high school baseball

Masan Yongmago vs. 'Challenge to win for the first time in 7 years' Seoul High School will determine the best in the country for the first time in 2025 high school baseball

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The 2025 Shinsegae E-Mart National High School Baseball Competition is just around the corner. Masan Yongma High School, which had been runner-up seven times without winning since its foundation, will try to win its first national championship. Seoul High School hopes to win the title for the first time in seven years after winning the Korean Baseball Association long-term title, the predecessor of E-Mart in 2018.메이저놀이터

Hosted and organized by the Korea Baseball Softball Association and sponsored by Shinsegae E-Mart and Miryang City, the 2025 Shinsegae E-Mart Cup National High School Baseball Competition will play the final match at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 13th. In the semifinal match held on the 11th, Seoul High School won Jemulpo High School and Masan Yongma High School won Daegu High School to advance to the final. The tradition of holding the Landers Field final, which has been created since the name was changed to E-Mart Bae, continues this year. High school baseball players are preparing for a great game like a team that advances to the final in professional-level grounds and dugouts.

Seoul High School advanced to the finals with a 7-4 victory over Jemulpo High School on Sunday. At the 1-1 tie, the team scored four runs in the fifth inning to take the lead, and kept the lead by leaving the last three innings to Kim. As the fourth batter and third baseman, Kim had one hit and two RBIs from four times at bat, and as a closer, he had no hit, allowing three walks and five strikeouts in three innings. Kim Ji-woo said, "I was out weakly in my first and second at-bats. In my third at-bat, I thought I should spin hard. It was the bases loaded and I was the fourth batter, so I tried to spin hard, and I think I got a good hit."

Masan Yongmago defeated Daegu High School 2-1 in the following match. After winning three cold games, and scoring 10 points in one inning twice in the process, the dreadful batters lost strength in the semi-finals. However, based on Sung's strong pitching of 105 pitches and one run in eight ⅔ innings, the team was able to achieve a dramatic victory. Although he gave up one run in the bottom of the ninth inning to Daegu High School, Masan Yongmago won the game due to unexpected variables. As Daegu High School's defense obstruction pushed up the final out count, Masan Yongmago won the game 2-1 rather than a 2-2 tie.

Masan Yongmago clearly has the upper hand in this year's championship. Masan Yongmago has a team batting average of 0.312 and an earned run average of 1.05. Among the teams that advanced to the quarterfinals, his team has the second-highest batting average (No. 1 Yatta High School of 0.369) and the lowest ERA. On the other hand, Seoul High School was at a moderate level in both the team batting average (0.278) and the ERA (2.47), but has continued its unbeaten streak.

Considering the restriction on the number of pitches, the gap between the two teams is further narrowed. Seoul High School has a superb capacity to manage the number of pitches (though manager Kim Dong-soo said he only considered the situation of the team and the players) and can deploy all pitchers in the final. Lee Seo-yul and Sung Ji-hwan are at the risk of being limited in the number of pitches. One of the charms of high school baseball, however, is that it can come from behind in any game. Instead, Masan is still looking forward to its strong lineup and shoulder of Lee Yoon-sang, the second highest in innings within the team this year.

The final match to be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday will be broadcast live on SPOTV and SPOTV NOW. The latter half of the match and the award ceremony will be broadcast on SPOTV GOLF & HEALTH channel.